Special Tuition Rate. Beginning the Leadership Journey (0)
Students explore their assumptions about management and
leadership and review well-known theories of leadership.
Discussion topics include the distinction between management and
leadership; leader and follower perspectives on leadership;
current challenges in leadership and motivation; and what it
takes to play a leadership role in organizations today.

Special Tuition Rate. Dates and times will be scheduled
between the students and their executive coaches August 31-
December 19, 2015.
Executive Coaching (0)
Students have a session with an executive coach based on the
survey results of the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory
(ESCI), a 360 tool which measures behaviors that contribute to
socially and emotionally effective performance. The ESCI
feedback report shows how others, including manager(s), direct
reports, peers, etc., experience the student's behavior in terms
of the consistency with which he/she demonstrates the 12
emotional and social intelligence competencies. Open only to OIG
students.

Special Tuition Rate. Dates and times will be scheduled
between the students and their executive coaches August 31-
December 19, 2015.
Executive Coaching (0)
Students have a session with an executive coach based on the
survey results of the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory
(ESCI), a 360 tool which measures behaviors that contribute to
socially and emotionally effective performance. The ESCI
feedback report shows how others, including manager(s), direct
reports, peers, etc., experience the student's behavior in terms
of the consistency with which he/she demonstrates the 12
emotional and social intelligence competencies. Open only to OIG
students.

State and Local Management (3)
This course acquaints students with the major features and
theories of
state and local administration, with an emphasis on the
intergovernmental context in which these governments function.
The
course uses political, legal, fiscal, and managerial
perspectives to
examine selected policy areas including education, health and
welfare,
economic development, and others.

Special Tuition Rate.
Language of Statistics (1.5)
This course covers a number of techniques and strategies
designed to enhance analytic and decision-making skills. The
primary objective is to equip students to interpret statistics
that are widely used in statistical reports, studies,
evaluation, etc., with a focus on how these statistics can aid
management policy and decision making, and problem solving.

Public Policies for the Environment and Energy (3)
This course provides a review, analysis, and evaluation of
environmental and energy policies, including energy production
and consumption, air and water pollution, climate change,
regulation of toxic chemicals, land and resource management,
habitat protection, and the effects of new and emerging
technologies. The course considers substantive issues,
strategies, analytical approaches, and the political
perspectives that influence policy framing, evaluation, and
implementation.

Healthcare Policy in the United States (3)
Examination of current government policies affecting the U.S.
national health care system. Emphasis on the government's role
in regulating and delivering health care services, the financial
implications of proposed reforms, and the relationship between
governmental bodies and private providers.

Grant Management (3)
This course exposes students to skills necessary to design and
manage projects of various sizes. The course also discusses the
skills needed to seek external funding, with particular
attention to grant seeking and grant writing. The focus is not
on a particular grant-maker, sector, or national context; the
skills and tools students learn transcend organizational,
sectoral, and national boundaries.

Urban Policy and Community Development (3)
Contemporary American cities offer benefits to citizens far
beyond their boundaries, yet are also a source of some of the
most intractable policy challenges. Concentrated crime and
poverty, housing and economic segregation, failing schools,
political corruption, social isolation, and a lack of vitality
and innovation mark many urban and suburban communities. This
course provides students with the analytic tools to understand
and tackle the policy problems of cities and localities, as well
as substantive knowledge in critical areas.

Nonprofit Policy, Advocacy, and Law (3)
This course examines both how policy influences nonprofits as
well as
how nonprofits impact policy. It addresses the role of nonprofit
organizations in the public policy process including advocacy
strategies and techniques and examines how laws shape nonprofit
involvement in that process. The course also reviews state and
federal
policy that enables and regulates nonprofits, including legal
forms,
tax exemption, fundraising regulations, and employee
compensation.

Global Health Policy (3)
This course covers health issues facing low-income countries;
such as HIV/AIDS; maternal and child mortality; and weak health
systems. Students consider how policy-makers and managers can
address these problems. This course examines the global health
architecture and national health systems are examined.

Housing Policy (3)
This course gives students a comprehensive overview of U.S.
affordable housing policy since the 1930s. Emphasis is given to
federal initiatives and systems focused on financing, building,
and maintaining affordable housing units across the country.
Topics covered include public housing, urban renewal, vouchers
(and other mobility programs), public housing demolition, HOPE
VI developments, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, subprime
lending, and various mechanisms of housing finance.

Public Finance in Developing Countries (3)
This course focuses on issues of coordination and accountability
in a decentralized context and considers decentralization and
intergovernmental finance from a public finance perspective,
including expenditure and revenue assignment; intergovernmental
transfer; coordinated budget processes and structures; and
public expenditure management.

Nonprofits and Public Policy (3)
This course examines both how public policy influences
nonprofits as well as how nonprofits impact public policy. It
addresses the role of nonprofit organizations in the public
policy process including advocacy strategies and techniques, and
examines how laws shape nonprofit involvement in that process.
The course reviews how state and federal policies enable and
regulate nonprofits in areas such fundraising, human resource
management, and tax exemptions, including legal matters, tax
exemption, fundraising regulations, and employee compensation.

Conduct of Inquiry III (3)
This doctoral level course covers extensions of the basic linear
regression model including quasi-experimental methods for
estimating causal effects using cross sectional and longitudinal
data, multilevel modeling, and time series analysis. The course
assumes that students have a firm grasp of classical hypothesis
testing and the properties of the OLS estimator. Prerequisite:
GOVT-613.